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unusual facts about August 28



1718 in art

August 28 - Claude-Henri Watelet, French fermier-général, amateur painter and writer on the arts (died 1786)


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163d Reconnaissance Wing

On August 28, 2013, a Predator was flying over the Rim Fire in California providing infrared video of lurking fires, after receiving emergency approvals.

1971 Little League World Series

The 1971 Little League World Series took place between August 24 and August 28 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The Men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held on August 28 on a loop course starting and finishing at Gukchae - bosang Memorial Park in the center of Daegu.

7th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry

The 7th Tennessee Cavalry was organized at Jackson, Grand Junction, and Trenton, Tennessee and mustered in August 28, 1862 for a three year enlistment under the command of Colonel Isaac Roberts Hawkins.

Abraham Kuhn

Abraham Kuhn (August 28, 1838 – September 15, 1900) was an Alsatian otolarynologist born in Bissersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Albert Lee Stephens, Jr.

On August 28, 1961, Stephens was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California vacated by Benjamin Harrison.

Anthracite League

On August 28, 1924, Gildea set up a meeting at the town hall in Coaldale to establish the league.

Battle of Petitcodiac

During Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755), on August 28, Monckton sent Major Joseph Frye with an expedition of 200 provincial militia from Fort Cumberland in two armed sloops, with instructions to clear Acadians settlements on the Petitcodiac River.

Battle of Wofla

The Battle of Wofla was fought on August 28, 1542 near Lake Ashenge in Wofla (or Ofla) in the modern Ethiopian Region of Tigray (previously part of Wollo; its incorporation into Tigray instead of Amhara is therefore disputed), between the Portuguese under Cristóvão da Gama and the forces of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi.

Benjamin Radcliff

Benjamin Radcliff (born August 28, 1963) is an American political scientist and a professor at the University of Notre Dame.

Celia Thaxter

She had a son, Roland, born August 28, 1858, who would later become a prominent plant pathologist.

Cigarettes and Valentines

The title song, "Cigarettes and Valentines" was first played live at the concert in Greenwood Village, Colorado on August 28, 2010, during the band's concert at the Comfort Dental Amphitheatre while on their 21st Century Breakdown World Tour.

Conectiva

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

Crazy Town

On August 28, 2009, former member Adam Goldstein was found dead in his apartment, of an accidental drug overdose.

Denis Higgs

On August 28, 1964, he was kidnapped from his home in Lusaka, Zambia.

Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford

Dorothy Ford bore three sons during her second marriage: Thomas Gardner Ford (July 15, 1918 - August 28, 1995), Richard Addison Ford (born June 3, 1924), and James Francis Ford (August 11, 1927 - January 23, 2001).

Edmund B. Fitzgerald

Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald (1926 - August 28, 2013) was a businessman and was a key figure in bringing baseball back to Milwaukee in the form of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Effie Wilder

South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges proclaimed August 28, 2001 as Effie Wilder Day.

Elena Tedesco

Elena Tedeso was crowned Nuestra Belleza Mundo El Salvador 2009 on August 28, 2009 at Telecorporación Salvadoreña studios in San Salvador with the partciparon of 14 delegates.

Elias Loomis

Balfour Stewart reported that the magnetic storm from the Steward Super Flare began at 22:30 GMT on the evening of August 28, 1859 as recorded by self-recording magnetograph at the Kew Observatory.

Félix Varela

Felix Varela High School opened on August 28, 1999, in Miami, Florida, United States, is dedicated to the memory of Varela.

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (16 June 1762, in Palmanova – August 28, 1844) was an Italian painter, known mainly for his history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes, including veduta di fantasia or capricci.

Henry Nyandoro

Henry Nyandoro(October 20, 1969 in Kisii – August 28, 1998) was a Kenyan football midfielder who played for Shabana in Kisii.

Horrors of Malformed Men

On August 28, 2007, Synapse Films and Panik House gave Horrors of Malformed Men a mass-market release on region-1 DVD.

Irreemplazable

Comprising Spanish, English and Spanglish re-recordings of songs from her second studio album B'Day, it featured as a bonus disc for the United States deluxe edition of B'Day, before being released separately on August 28, 2007 by Columbia Records.

Jaclyn Raulerson

Jaclyn Frances Raulerson (born August 28, 1990) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Plant City, Florida who was named Miss Florida 2010.

Jake Allex

Aleksa Mandušić (Serbian Cyrillic: Алекса Мандушић), or Jake Allex (July 13, 1887 – August 28, 1959), was a Serbian American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his service in the U.S. Army during World War I.

Johann Konrad von Reinach-Hirtzbach

Johann Konrad von Reinach-Hirtzbach was born in Michelbach-le-Haut on August 28, 1657, the son of Hans Diebold Freiherr von Reinach-Hirtzbach (d. 1702) and his wife Anna Maria Eva von Freiin von Reinach-Steinbrunnborn (d. 1702).

John Stasko

John Thomas Stasko III (born August 28, 1961) is a Professor in and the Associate Chair of the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Tech, where he joined the faculty in 1989.

Johnny Jackson

Johnny "J" Johnny Lee Jackson (August 28, 1969 – October 3, 2008)

Jon Rauch

On August 28, 2009, Rauch was traded to the Minnesota Twins for RHP Kevin Mulvey.

José María Caro Rodríguez

On August 28 of that same year, Pope Pius XII made him Archbishop of Santiago and thus Primate of the Church in Chile.

LAN Argentina

On August 28, 2013, an Argentinean judge blocked the government's plan to break a long term lease of hangar space to LAN in Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, that was seen as vital to the airline's operations.

Luminate

The bands' second album is Welcome to Daylight, which was released under the Sparrow label on August 28, 2012, and has seen chart success.

Nahum Admoni

On August 28, 2006 he was appointed by prime minister Ehud Olmert to be chairman of an investigation committee, charged with investigating the actions of the government during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.

Nicholas I of Montenegro

On August 28, 1910, during the celebration of his jubilee, he assumed the title of king, in accordance with a petition from the Skupština.

Oral Ak Zhol Airport

On August 28, 2009 an Itek Air Boeing-737-200 en route from Bishkek to Moscow performed an emergency landing due to oil leak on the port engine.

Pascal Lefèvre

He set his personal best (82.56 m) on August 28, 1989 in Duisburg.

Pedro Maffia

Pedro Mario Maffia (August 28, 1899 – October 16, 1967) was an Argentine tango bandoneonist, bandleader, composer and teacher, as well as starring in several tango films.

Pedro Menendez High School

It was named for Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, a sixteenth-century Spanish admiral and pirate hunter who founded St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement and oldest port city in what is now the continental United States, on August 28, 1565.

Qazim Mulleti


Mulleti died on August 28, 1956, in Vicolo delle Grotte, Rocca di Papa, near Rome.

Rehasher

High Speed Access to My Brain (2009), released August 28, 2009; vinyl version on Paper + Plastick, CD version on Moathouse Records.

Republic of Kuwait

On August 28 Kuwaiti territory was transformed into the Kuwait Governorate, Iraq's 19th province, and thus formally annexed.

Shannon McRandle

Shannon Lynn Jones was born on August 28, 1969 in Killeen, Texas, US, to Leonard Jones (stationed at Fort Hood, drafted into the army for the Vietnam War) and Barbara Kubiszewski Walsh.

Slesse Mountain

However Slesse is most famous for the Northeast Buttress, first climbed on August 28, 1963 by Fred Beckey, Steve Marts, and Eric Bjornstad.

The Newest Pledge

Before it's wide release on August 28, 2012, the film screened at the Houston Comedy Film Festival, the Wet Your Pants Comedy Film Festival in Indianapolis, and Indie Fest USA in Garden Grove, California.

Theodor Brorsen

The asteroid 3979, which was discovered by A. Mrkos in Klet on November 8, 1983, was named "Brorsen" on proposal of J. Tichá (MPC 27734 – 1996 August 28).

Victor Assis Brasil

Victor Assis Brasil (August 28, 1945 – 1981) was a Brazilian jazz saxophonist.

Warren Petersen

2012 With incumbent Republican Representatives Jerry Weiers retiring, and Steve Montenegro redistricted to District 13, Petersen ran in the three-way August 28, 2012 Republican Primary; incumbent Representative Eddie Farnsworth placed first, Petersen placed second with 12,500 votes, and former state Senator Larry Chesley placed third.